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tqu9047 wrote: my wife a witch and myself a monster.

Where did you find the Pelosi and Obama costumes?

TheCytochromeC wrote:

mot7981 wrote:We'll pass out candy as always but have two bowls... One with the "good stuff" for the cute kids we enjoy seeing and one with dollar store junk we give to the older teens with nothing but a pillow case.

That's what I'm thinking. I'm going to have three bowls though. I'll be lowering candy from the balcony to trick or treaters though. It'll ensure they don't see what candy I have to offer and distract them while my room mates do the scaring. For the good ones, they get a quarter-pound Hershey bar. For the bad ones, I'm mixing my own awful recipe of Red-Hots, Mounds, Dots, Candy Corn and Twizzlers. Ugh, a concoction so disgusting it makes me cringe just thinking about it. I don't know if I can give that out with a straight face - oh that's right I won't.

You going to have a shotgun and blast off a round or two each time someone walks up your driveway?

MeMelYup wrote:

TheCytochromeC wrote:

mot7981 wrote:We'll pass out candy as always but have two bowls... One with the "good stuff" for the cute kids we enjoy seeing and one with dollar store junk we give to the older teens with nothing but a pillow case.

That's what I'm thinking. I'm going to have three bowls though. I'll be lowering candy from the balcony to trick or treaters though. It'll ensure they don't see what candy I have to offer and distract them while my room mates do the scaring. For the good ones, they get a quarter-pound Hershey bar. For the bad ones, I'm mixing my own awful recipe of Red-Hots, Mounds, Dots, Candy Corn and Twizzlers. Ugh, a concoction so disgusting it makes me cringe just thinking about it. I don't know if I can give that out with a straight face - oh that's right I won't.

You going to have a shotgun and blast off a round or two each time someone walks up your driveway?

Nope, Super-Soaker filled with ice water You see, it's imagination that makes Halloween so much fun!

TheCytochromeC wrote:

MeMelYup wrote:

TheCytochromeC wrote:

mot7981 wrote:We'll pass out candy as always but have two bowls... One with the "good stuff" for the cute kids we enjoy seeing and one with dollar store junk we give to the older teens with nothing but a pillow case.

That's what I'm thinking. I'm going to have three bowls though. I'll be lowering candy from the balcony to trick or treaters though. It'll ensure they don't see what candy I have to offer and distract them while my room mates do the scaring. For the good ones, they get a quarter-pound Hershey bar. For the bad ones, I'm mixing my own awful recipe of Red-Hots, Mounds, Dots, Candy Corn and Twizzlers. Ugh, a concoction so disgusting it makes me cringe just thinking about it. I don't know if I can give that out with a straight face - oh that's right I won't.

You going to have a shotgun and blast off a round or two each time someone walks up your driveway?

Nope, Super-Soaker filled with ice water You see, it's imagination that makes Halloween so much fun!

Good one

For years, we completely ignored it. I've never cared for it, and still don't.
When we lived in a nicer neighborhood in the Houston area, we started handing out plastic coins with the salvation message on them along with candy, and the kids would knock on the door and ask if we were the house with "those big coins." I never did mind the teenagers; I taught middle school for nine years. The ones that showed up were well-behaved.
Since then I have moved. My daughter and I live with my parents in a semi-rural area. They are in a neighborhood, but the houses are all on at least an acre. The families combine resources for a hayride, and the kids go on a hayride and knock on doors for candy. Neighbors without small children will usually just sit on the front porch or on the driveway as the stampede of children approach.
My daughter, now age 4, has dressed up like a turkey, bumblebee, a lady bug, and (this year) a mermaid. Very few families where we are living now will permit the scary costumes.

Honestly, I much prefer Thanksgiving. We usually have pleasant weather, and it's a day to focus on being thankful. And my mother makes really good cornbread dressing.

I posted why we stopped several years ago, but forgot to mention we donate candy to our church for their Fall Fest. I also forgot I made a bean bag toss game for the kids.

VMI77 wrote:

tqu9047 wrote: my wife a witch and myself a monster.

Where did you find the Pelosi and Obama costumes?

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

You owe me a keyboard.

I always buy candy. What I don't hand out to the neighborghood kids gets put out in a bowl at my desk at work. The leftovers are always gone by Veterans Day. Even the candy corn.

its been years since we answered the door. We sit out in the driveway for a while. What we've noticed is carload/vanloads of kids being dropped off with the vehicle waiting at the end of the block.

Its surprising that kids will still come up to the door-- no lights on, even after 2200.

Friends will drive over and stop with their kids. I guess the days of kids walking the neighborhood are over-- at least in our neighborhood.

VMI77 wrote:

tqu9047 wrote: my wife a witch and myself a monster.

Where did you find the Pelosi and Obama costumes?

That, my friend, is a good one.
Thanks, I needed the laugh.

Tim

Has anyone thought about trying to organize a block party instead of handing out candy? Seems like it might be more fun, especially if you're abstaining from the "traditional" Halloween stuff.